What eddie0776 said !!!
What eddie0776 said !!!
Out of the pot and into the fire? LOL. I think I'll get a regular wrap done first before I play with stacked wraps. I haven't even done Irish Linen yet.
I took some lessons with a truly spectacular guitar builder some years ago. I asked him, "William, what do you do when you make a big mistake? Do you still have to toss parts in the kindling pile?" He said, "John, after a while you can see the big ones coming."
I've learned a bit over the years and I can see the big ones coming too!
I finished up my first cue but I made the channel for the leather wrap too deep. It's not terrible, but I'd like to fix it at some point and redo the wrap one of these days when I get a jig. I have a bending pipe and can bend some veneer if I really have to, but I'd like to do something simpler if possible. I was thinking of maybe just wrapping it with fiberglass tape, super gluing it down and then go from there.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Old thread but was searching for some advice to build up deep wrap channels to install linen wrap.
I am aware there can be many different ways to do it but I would like to seek some opinions;
1. Tape up the entire handle
2. Thin wood veneers
3. A piece of leather
4. Two to theee rolls of linen (each roll enough for a cue)
I finished up my first cue but I made the channel for the leather wrap too deep. It's not terrible, but I'd like to fix it at some point and redo the wrap one of these days when I get a jig. I have a bending pipe and can bend some veneer if I really have to, but I'd like to do something simpler if possible. I was thinking of maybe just wrapping it with fiberglass tape, super gluing it down and then go from there.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Trust me you aren't the first to do it nor will you be the last. I wasn't paying attention to one recently and had the same thing happen. Honestly changing out the handle isn't that bad and as you start to get more cues in for repair, you're eventually going to get one that has a warp in the handle and needs to be fixed. Better to get some practice on your own cue than on a customers cue. I still have the occasional chipping problem at the edge of the wrap grooves on my finish when I clean up the edges. Chris gave me some good advice a few weeks back that I'll be trying.
I'm fairly sure that with a LOT of work, you could probably build up a cyano finish enough to make up the difference. You could get a thicker piece of leather (especially your prints such as "ostrich" seem to be scived a little thicker,) or even switch over to linen and double wrap it. Leather wraps can be painful to learn without a jig and what I found is that I made it FAR more difficult than it needed to be. Mike Webb is 100% correct as usual. It's just a matter of lining up the ruler and cutting it one cut per seam. I will say that I found a good rolling paper cutter (that I stole from my wife's embroidery shop) made cutting my end seams MUCH easier.
Best of luck. 99% of the fun is in learning what NOT to do next time.
Old thread but was searching for some advice to build up deep wrap channels to install linen wrap.
I am aware there can be many different ways to do it but I would like to seek some opinions;
1. Tape up the entire handle
2. Thin wood veneers
3. A piece of leather
4. Two to theee rolls of linen (each roll enough for a cue)
If you change a linen wrap to a leather wrap, do you have to deepen the channel?
I have a cue with linen that I may want to change, but I don't want to do it if I have to deepen the channel.
If you change a linen wrap to a leather wrap, do you have to deepen the channel?
I have a cue with linen that I may want to change, but I don't want to do it if I have to deepen the channel.